Future of Skilled Indian Immigrants in Canada: Exploring the Impact of Immigration Policy, Economic Fluctuations, and Educational Investments on Gender Disparities

Abstract

Objective: The focus of the paper will be on the integration of the skilled Indian immigrants in the Canadian labor market with articulation along the four key dimensions, which include migration trends, gender disparity in employment outcomes, the significance of investing in post-secondary education and the effect of the recent immigration policies. The major goal is to be able to know why highly qualified Indian women still encounter disparate labour market outcomes even with the same qualification with that of women in other nations and to estimate the trends of these trends with time.

Methodology: As a research method, a quantitative approach is employed by the usage of secondary data that is obtained in Canadian Census, Labour Force Survey, and even in Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) reports. Some of the statistical methods that will be used are descriptive statistics to get an idea on the distributions of variables, regression analysis to get an idea on the relationship between variables such as education, gender and employment type and trend analysis, to get an idea on the changes since 2020 and till 2024 and predictive modeling, to get an idea on how the labor market participation and employment outcomes are going to be in the next decade.

Key Findings: There is a consistent/continued gender gap on part of employed skilled Indian immigrants where women are likely to be underemployed, occupying deskilled jobs. Relevant policies in Canada to assist immigrant medical workers have perfectly aligned and thus streamlined entry options, although the job opportunities are stained by a systemic discrimination result. The benefit of educational qualifications obtained in India are not always valid in Canada thereby increasing the disparity in the labor market. Trend and predictive models have shown that poor and middle-income families would continue to dominate gender-based disparities unless policy and institutional reforms are undertaken to change these trends in the next several years.